| 1 | Introduction: Studying Roman Emperors | |
| 2 | The Emperors and Their Empire | |
| 3 | Suetonius' Augustus | |
| 4 | Tacitus and Tacitus' Augustus | |
| 5 | Tacitus' Nero | |
| 6 | Suetonius' Nero | |
| 7 | Reading the Written Emperor | |
| 8 | Warring images: Octavian, Antony, and Actium | First paper due |
| 9 | Inventing Augustus | |
| 10 | Shaping Roman Values | |
| 11 | Golden Prosperity | |
| 12 | Making Augustan History | |
| 13 | Nero Makes a Spectacle of Himself | |
| 14 | Neronian Myth-making | |
| 15 | Nero Behaving Badly | Second paper due |
| 16 | Nero's Rome | |
| 17 | Making a Military Mockery | |
| 18 | Making Imperial History | |
| 19 | The Reel Nero: Viewing of Quo Vadis? (1951) | |
| 20 | Nero's Christian Afterlife | |
| 21 | Mussolini's Augustus | Outline of final paper due |
| 22 | Syme's Augustus | |
| 23 | Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics | |
| 24 | Presentation and Discussion of Final Paper Topics (cont.) | |
| 25 | Viewing of I, Claudius (1976) | |
| 26 | Conclusion: Whose Emperors? | Final paper due |